Tag: CelebrityInterviews
‘The days I had to have sex with randoms, I thought thank God!’ Jamie Bell on eye-popping drama Half Man | Television
Not many actors are relieved when they have to film an eye-poppingly explicit sex scene, but that was the case with Jamie Bell on Half Man. His role [...]
Boots Riley: ‘Theft is not outside of capitalism, it’s what it was built on’ | Boots Riley
Don’t call Boots Riley an anti-capitalist, at least not without qualification. “I’m a communist,” he clarifies. “A lot of stuff that calls itself ant [...]
‘I want to hit 100’: Derek Jacobi on Aids, ageing and failing to boil an egg | Film
Derek Jacobi is chatting to the photographer in the living room. His voice is unmistakeable – luxurious, buttered, every sentence beautifully parsed [...]
‘I have a lot of rage inside me’: Bob Odenkirk on Saul, satire and his heart attack | Film
You recently agreed in an interview that “life is a meaningless farce”. How come? benpendreyOh, I don’t know. You need to talk to God about that. I d [...]
‘A lot of people don’t think I can act’: Wallace Shawn on Hollywood, therapy and speaking out on Palestine | Wallace Shawn
When I ask Wallace Shawn how he cast his latest stage work, What We Did Before Our Moth Days, the actor and playwright smiles matter-of-factly: “Well [...]
‘An orgy of antisemitism is overtaking the west’: Son of Saul’s László Nemes on Hollywood hypocrisy | László Nemes
We’ve been talking for less than five minutes when I spot the swastika. It’s just above the head of László Nemes, one of Europe’s most acclaimed dire [...]
Are you sitting uncomfortably? How Backrooms upended the horror movie | Horror films
Chiwetel Ejiofor has been on a lot of movie sets, but Backrooms was something different: a 30,000 sq ft labyrinth of apparently random corridors and [...]
‘Oh my God, did my dad and I fight’: Olivia Colman on triggers, trans rights and sexual regret | Film
In Jimpa, Olivia Colman plays a woman called Hannah who leaves Adelaide with her husband and 16-year-old child to visit her father in Amsterdam. This [...]
‘I never thought people might feel threatened by us’: YouTuber Curry Barker on his gigantic horror ascent | Horror films
Things have been going scarily well for 26-year-old film-maker Curry Barker.The past 18 months have seen him level up from lo-fi YouTube comedy skits [...]
‘There was a lot of addiction and trauma in my family’: why Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon plays a perfect Judy Garland | Theatre
If these are strange times in America, they are particularly strange for Jinkx Monsoon, the 38-year-old actor, singer and drag artist who, since winn [...]